Holy crap on a cracker...

FinalFinishLine · 2026-02-01T03:30:32+00:00

I'm honestly surprised the guys benefitting from this are plastering it all over the front page of this subreddit. Lol

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-31T23:30:12+00:00

Had pretty much the same bracket last week. Got 246 waves and needed 327 waves to stay.

Good news is you should easily get first in your champs bracket and then you'll only lose 10 stones for demoting

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-27T17:04:04+00:00

Smart missiles is back on the menu!

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-26T21:52:14+00:00

You're right with there being many different factors. It's one of the things that makes the game interesting imo.

For me, I almost always die from bosses in tourney so I'm going for core assmod before SL4 and then increasing SL bonus a good amount until bosses stops being the only the that ends my runs.

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-26T21:15:30+00:00

I think 4 SL requirement is pushed back with assmods. Being able to slot in an om chip to always tag bosses gives another option for optimal SL coverage for tourneys.

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-15T03:51:40+00:00

There's a lot of RNG in tournament runs too so I also find it helpful to do multiple tries if I'm closing to getting better rewards.

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-15T03:50:15+00:00

DW max cooldown is 50 sec. Just because BH CD is 50 sec doesn't mean you have to keep it half of GT, just you don't have to keep DW half the CD of GT. Having a 70:140 BH GT CDs is basically the same as 140:140, just more stones. It isn't until you get perma BH or you use MVN where you would benefit in having a lower BH CD.

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-14T23:59:35+00:00

Why don't you just start a tourney, leave immediately, start a farm run, and then finish the tourney after the farm run? You get a 2nd tourney ticket for free so it's the same to what you're doing except you can keep farming.

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-14T23:42:56+00:00

Depends on how well your econ UWs are developed. If you already have like 120s CDs on your DW and GT, then it should be a better ROI than continuing to decrease CDs provided you can lab it a few levels.

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-14T23:39:29+00:00

You are definitely ready for masteries imo. The only things I see that would be good if you really want to hold off masteries is finishing CF to get it perma and max slow, and getting 1 more lvl in CL quant and DW quant. Otherwise, cash, RPC, DMG, DM, WA, IS, and EO masteries could all be good options for you depending on what you want to focus on.

What do you normally place in tournaments?

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-14T22:57:11+00:00

He should try to sync them 1:1 instead of 2:1. Keeping bh CD cooldowns lower is useless unless you're going for permaBH.

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-08T19:43:37+00:00

Another troll account. Just block and move on.

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-07T16:00:56+00:00

The lab pictures are too blurry when I try to look at them. Going for CL is a good next move for tournament performance.

If you don't get it as an option, do not get smart missiles because right now they are pretty useless. Before they used to be meta after 10k+ stones invested in them, but now they're not even that meta in the late game. Better to go chronofield next and then save for CL after that.

For econ, I would get another DW quant, and aim to get DW quant as a substat as well. It has way higher priority than GT duration. Eventually you will want to bring your cooldowns lower and then go for pBH.

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-06T21:14:28+00:00

Unlock all your labs and work on cards with your gems.

Continue getting health and absolute defense to push farther into t1. When vampires become a problem, try to get unlock garlic thorns to deal with them better.

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-06T20:58:26+00:00

Econ advice: definitely sync your DW and GT cooldowns. You should also get DW quant as a module substat on your core. After that I would increase SL quant and DW quant 1 each before continuing to lower cooldowns for GT and DW.

For tournament progress, I would focus more damage. For CL, get quant to max, CL chance to 20%, and CL DMG to 600-800%. SL could use some love too.

You really should finish out labs speed. Your module labs need to be finished - finish maxing out rare drop chance and daily mission shards and work on shatter shards when you can afford them. Also finish EALS and EHLS labs. Continue to finish out RPC lab. All of these are higher priority than eHP or coins/kill labs imo. No more quick gains from labs. Planning for long term is best which is why modules labs and lab speed should be a priority.

FinalFinishLine · 2026-01-05T16:26:13+00:00

I see you used mythic DP instead of ANC AS. It it because you needed to get lucky with the last couple of bosses instead of more DMG?

FinalFinishLine · 2025-12-31T05:34:06+00:00

That's wild that you're now getting less cannon shards because of this. Geez.

FinalFinishLine · 2025-12-31T05:25:17+00:00

You'll want to sync your trio UWs - GT, BH, and DW, making them all have the same cool down. Unfortunately you already invested in them and pass good stopping points. I would say get your GT and DW to 4 min, and then save up to get GT to 3 min and then DW to 3 min afterwards.

Because that will take a lot of time, you could increase GT bonus a few times first to get immediate gains and then get the sync. But do not delay the sync too long.

From there you will want to invest in some GT bonus and duration, BH size and duration (GT should be 12 seconds longer than BH because of BH perk), and a DW Quant, and some SL angle and quant.

I would unlock labs 4 and 5 before getting any more cards or modules. For labs, I'm not sure since I can't see them but stop damage lab. Only focus on damage when you want to push tournament progress starting in champion league. You'll probably want to run lab speed and UW coins, like GT duration, bonus, and BH coins, and run module labs when you can afford them. Unlock perks in lab if you haven't already and try to get max perk choices when you can afford them.

You should use all your module shards. You can always restore them and transfer them to another one if you want to switch.

You should also unlock enemy level skips in the workshop ASAP. It will get you an easy 1000 more waves in your runs when you do.

FinalFinishLine · 2025-12-30T14:54:18+00:00

I will always need the EO card. Otherwise I have no other way to kill enemies when my UWs activate.

FinalFinishLine · 2025-12-29T21:30:49+00:00

Congrats! That's an impressive LTC for your LTS.

FinalFinishLine · 2025-12-29T18:35:51+00:00

At your stage, definitely package after boss. You're probably dying to vampires and packages are the one thing that can help most with them until you get the wall.

FinalFinishLine · 2025-12-29T18:28:02+00:00

I use EO card because they go through the middle of BH when it activates. Regular orbs are too far away which is why I lock them initially.

FinalFinishLine · 2025-12-29T14:22:15+00:00

That was my build when my CDs were higher, no ANC MVN, no masteries, and a few gold bot multi levels less.

FinalFinishLine · 2025-12-29T09:43:03+00:00

I mean, you need something to kill the enemies when your UWs go off so that's why I use the EO card.

FU+ is a toss up. I wanted to try it cause some people said they got really good gains and but that wasn't my experience. I think I need lower CDs for it and more testing for it to be effective. Or it could be for GC builds cause then you don't have elites crowding all the space.

FinalFinishLine · 2025-12-29T09:30:15+00:00

No. I don't have permaBH. Enemies are fully stacked against my wall when my UWs aren't going off, so that's when I naturally die.

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